Infertility grounds for Annulment?

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I am trying to find some Church documents concerning whether or not infertility is grounds for an annulment. I have a professor that said a man can get an annulment in the Catholic church if his wife turns out to be infertile. Now, I know that it is grounds if this information was hidden from the spouse, but what if it is not known by either one until after the marriage? I’m pretty sure he is mistaken, but I would like some documentation to back up my claim. Thanks!
 
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I am trying to find some Church documents concerning whether or not infertility is grounds for an annulment. I have a professor that said a man can get an annulment in the Catholic church if his wife turns out to be infertile. Now, I know that it is grounds if this information was hidden from the spouse, but what if it is not known by either one until after the marriage? I’m pretty sure he is mistaken, but I would like some documentation to back up my claim. Thanks!
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He is. You can use me as a reference.
Although, the annulment can be issued on countless other subjects. Just think up another one.
 
impotence is grounds for an annulment, because no valid marriage can be contracted if either party is unable to perform the marriage act, that is canon law. Infertility or sterility is not grounds for annulment, unless deception or dishonesty was involved.
 
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picasso_13:
I am trying to find some Church documents concerning whether or not infertility is grounds for an annulment. I have a professor that said a man can get an annulment in the Catholic church if his wife turns out to be infertile. Now, I know that it is grounds if this information was hidden from the spouse, but what if it is not known by either one until after the marriage? I’m pretty sure he is mistaken, but I would like some documentation to back up my claim. Thanks!
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If neither party knew that the other was infertile and both were open to the possibility of having children there there are no grounds for stating that the marriage was not sacramental.

If this is an attempt to try and get an annulment from your wife on the grounds that she is infertile then I suggest that you might have to look a lot closer at the relationship that you had formed. Why did you marry in the first place? Are you already civilly divorced?

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picasso_13:
I am trying to find some Church documents concerning whether or not infertility is grounds for an annulment. I have a professor that said a man can get an annulment in the Catholic church if his wife turns out to be infertile. Now, I know that it is grounds if this information was hidden from the spouse, but what if it is not known by either one until after the marriage? I’m pretty sure he is mistaken, but I would like some documentation to back up my claim. Thanks!
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Yes he is mistaken. Infertility is NOT an impediment to Marriage, or as he says grounds for Annulment. Your proving a negative! You won’t find Infertility as an impediment in Canon Law.

An example would be if two 60 year olds enter into Marriage is that Marriage automatically invalid because they most likely can’t have children? NO!
 
Can. 1083 …] §3. Sterility neither prohibits nor nullifies marriage, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 1098.

Can. 1098 A person contracts invalidly who enters into a marriage deceived by malice, perpetrated to obtain consent, concerning some quality of the other partner which by its very nature can gravely disturb the partnership of conjugal life.
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Ergo: If someone is maliciously deceived into believing the future spouse is fertile, matrimonial consent is defective. Other than that, there is no impediment.
 
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